Published: 2022-12-30

A parsonage near Cracow in the late seventeenth century in the light of an account settlement made after the incumbent’s death

Waldemar Kowalski
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Section: Sources
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM70.2022.4.005

Abstract

The article discusses the inventory that was compiled before 24 September 1694 as a result of the settlement of accounts, including those of the funeral, of the late Rev.
Kazimierz Wolfowicz, rector of the parish of Racławice near Cracow. He was born to a wealthy family of this city and died most probably at the end of 1693 or at the beginning
of 1694. This source is unique in its richness of information concerning the social milieu of the Lesser Poland clergy that is their noble and clerical neighbours, manorial servants, and their contacts with the nearby towns, primarily with Cracow. The register lists the priest’s books that must have been used at church on a daily basis
and also sheds some light on the equipment of the manor. Rarely have such informative documents been employed in the studies in the Little Poland Church’s history, and
the article shows that further research in the field seems possible and promising.

Keywords:

post-mortem inventories, funerals, rector’s homestead, movables, early modern Lesser Poland, Cracow

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Kowalski, W. (2022). A parsonage near Cracow in the late seventeenth century in the light of an account settlement made after the incumbent’s death. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 70(4), 465–486. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM70.2022.4.005

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